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TALLAHASSEE — Splitting the engineering school shared by Florida State University and Florida A&M University into separate programs could cost $1 billion and draw legal challenges on civil-rights grounds, according to a new study on the issue. But the report, from the California-based Collaborative Braintrust Consulting Firm, also says that changes are needed at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering if it remains a single institution. In many ways, the final version of the study is similar to an early draft. It maintains that the start-up costs of a separate FSU engineering program that could help the university gain national prominence would run into the hundreds of millions of...

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